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Papilio Apollo : alis albis nigro maculalis: pofterioribus iupn* 

 ocellis quatuor, fubtus fex bafique rubris. Linn. 

 Fn. Suec. 1032.— It. gothl. 230. 



Papilio Apollo. Fair. Ivj\ 2, So. n.4}7> Haworth. Lep, 

 Brit. l.p. 29. 



This large and very beautiful butterfly, is an inhabitant of various 

 parts of Europe, and is found alfo in the more temperate parts of Sh 

 beria. We are induced to infert it among the Britifli Papiliones 

 on the affurance of Mr. Haworth, that he was recently informed the 

 fpecies had been taken in Scotland '*. It would afford us much plea- 

 fure could the particulars of its capture be fubmitted to our readers 4 

 but we have been unable to procure any further information on this 

 fubject ; and prefuming the fact at leaft to be correctly Hatred, we 

 could not refrain commencing our new volume with the reprefentation, 

 of fuch an interefting object. 



Papilio Apollo is the offspring of a folitary fluggifh larva, or 

 caterpillar, of a black colour, covered with a foft and filky down. All 

 the rings are marked on both fides with two red fpots, which together 

 conftitute a longitudinal feries along each fide. Beiides thefe fpots, 

 every ring or joint' is marked nearer the middle of the back with three 

 fmall lateral dots of blueish, difpofed in a femilunar manner, and thus 

 forming a longitudinal waved line on each fide within the two rows; 

 of red fpots. The anterior part of the head is furnifhed with tenta- 

 cula, which the animal can advance or retract at pleafure ; this is fur- 

 cated when completely fpread out. The Pupa is nightly folliculate^ 

 fomewhat ovate, and of a blueish colour. 



* Haw, Lep, Prodr. Pre/, p. 29. 



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